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Zootaxa 4647 (1): 006–013 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Editorial ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2019 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.3 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D3886B92-825A-4274-9A5F-BA9B7E3E2F1B Preface to a special volume of acarological papers in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019) ZHI-QIANG ZHANG1, 2 1 Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] 2 Centre for Biodiversity & Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand The acarological and palaeontological communities lost a rising star when Dr Ekaterina Alekseevna (Katya) Sidor- chuk passed away in a tragic accident while diving in the Maldives on 20 January 2019. Katya was a good colleague of many acarologists and much-loved friend of numerous collaborators. She was a highly-valued member of the editing team of Zootaxa, serving as a subject editor for Oribatida (Acari) for several years; her excellent editorial contributions were greatly appreciated by many colleagues and friends. To honour Katya, her colleagues and friends of the acarological world dedicate here a special volume of Zootaxa in her memory. This memorial volume collects 28 papers on a variety of topics and taxa (both fossil and extant), including 11 papers on Prostigmata (Fan et al. 2019; Ghasemi-Moghadam et al. 2019; Hajiqanbar et al. 2019; Khaustov et al. 2019; Khaustov & Frolov 2019; Lindquist & Sidorchuk 2019; Porta et al. 2019; Seeman 2019; Sidorchuk et al. 2019; Xu et al. 2019; Zmudzinski et al. 2019); 1 paper on Astigmata (Klimov et al. 2019) and 13 papers on other Oribatida (Bayartogtokh & Shimano 2019; Behan-Pelletier & Ermilov 2019; Colloff 2019; Hagino & Shimano 2019; Liang et al. 2019; Liu & Zhang 2019; Niedbała et al. 2019; Norton & Ermilov 2019; Páez et al. 2019; Ren et al. 2019; Resch et al. 2019; Shimano & Aoki 2019; Zheng et al. 2019); 3 papers on Mesostigmata (Joharchi & Trach 2019; Makarova 2019; Mašán & Babaeian 2019). These papers also include 1 new genus and 19 new species named after Katya. The life of Katya and her important contributions to acarology and palaeontology were already described in two biographic papers: one published in Acarologia (Lindquist & Norton 2019) and another in Palaeoentomology (Ras- nitsyn 2019). The latter also includes a list of 61 papers published by Katya and co-authors. This volume adds two more of her papers: one on a new species of Eatoniana (Erythraeidae) in the Eocene Baltic amber (Sidorchuk et al. 2019) and another on a new species of Podapolipus (Podapolipidae) parasitic on a gryllacridid cricket in Australia (Lindquist & Sidorchuk 2019). To supplement the excellent biographic data of Katya provided by Rasnitsyn (2019) and Lindquist & Norton (2019), I herein provide a list of patronyms in her honour as well as a list of new taxa named by her and co-authors. Patronyms in honour of Ekaterina Alekseevna (Katya) Sidorchuk Two genera (1 fossil and 1 extant) and 23 species (3 fossil and 20 extant) were named after Ekaterina Alekseevna (Katya) Sidorchuk. Except one genus and three species of insects, all others are mites. Among the 25 patronyms, 76% (19) are named in papers of this memorial volume. Of the 23 species-group patronyms, most (13) are after her family name (sidorchukae or sidortschukae), 7 are after her given name (ekaterinae) and 3 after her nick name (katyae). Makarova (2019) transliterated Katya’s family name as Sidortschuk because she thinks this is the correct one from Russian. Genus-group names † Katyacantharis Kazantsev & Perkovsky, 2019 (INSECTA: Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Sidorchukdispus Khaustov, Hugo-Coetzee, Ermilov & Theron, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostig- mata: Microdispidae). 6 Accepted by R. Norton: 18 Jul. 2019; published: 26 Jul. 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 FIGURE 1. Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk, collecting and studying mites from fossil resins, with examples of her mite im- ages. A—working at her home microscopy station (September 2017). B—testing a washing sifter for preliminary cleaning of resin-bearing substrate (June 2012). C—extracting pieces of fossil resins from washed substrate by flotation, while on collecting trip with husband Dmitry Vorontsov in Taimyr, Siberia (August 2012). D—Cheletomimus crinitus Bochov & Sidorchuk, 2016 (Cheyletidae). E—Tuckerella weiterschani Sidorchuk & Khaustov, 2018 (Tuckerellidae); modified from Sidorchuk and Khaus- tov (2018). F—Minyacarus aderces Sidorchuk & Lindquist, 2015 (Triasacaridae). G—Pimeliaphilus sp. (Pterygosomatidae). H—Strieremaeus illibatus Sellnick, 1918 (Archaeorchestidae; tritonymph). Preface to A SPECIAL VOLUME OF ACAROLOGICAL papers Zootaxa 4647 (1) © 2019 Magnolia Press · 7 Species-group names Adamystis ekaterinae Ghasemi-Moghadam & Saboori in Ghasemi-Moghadam et al., 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Trom- bidiformes: Prostigmata: Adamystidae). Anderemaeus sidorchukae Norton & Ermilov, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Anderemaeidae). Calyptostoma katyae Konikiewicz, Wohltmann & Mąkol, 2016 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Ca- lyptostomatidae). Cosmolaelaps ekaterinae Mašán & Babaeian, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae). Cosmolaelaps sidorchukae Joharchi & Trach, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae). † Cretomycophila ekaterinae Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2016 (INSECTA: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Dentachipteria sidorchukae Ren, Yang, Liang & Zheng, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Achipte- riidae). Galumna (Cosmogalumna) ekaterinae Ermilov & Friedrich, 2016 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Ga- lumnidae). Galumnella (Galumnella) sidorchukae Liang, Yang, Ren & Zheng, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oriba- tida: Galumnellidae). Hoplophthiracarus sidorchukae Liu & Zhang, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae). Naiadacarus sidorchukae Klimov, OConnor & Khaustov, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Acari- dae). Neoaulonastus sidorchukae Zmudzinski, Skoracki & Hromada, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostig- mata: Syringophilidae). Notophthiracarus sidorchukae Niedbała in Niedbała, Hugo-Coetzee & Ermilov, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcopti- formes: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae). Pergalumna ekaterinae Páez, Villagomez & Palacios-Vargas, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Ga- lumnidae). Pergalumna (Pergalumna) sidorchukae Zheng, Liang & Yang, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Galumnidae). Sidorchukdispus ekaterinae Khaustov, Hugo-Coetzee, Ermilov & Theron, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Microdispidae). Thalassogamasus sidortschukae Makarova, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Parasitifomes, Mesostigmata: Parasitidae). Trichogalumna ekaterinae Bayartogtokh & Shimano, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Galumni- dae). Trichoribates sidorchukae Behan-Pelletier & Ermilov, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Ceratozet- idae). Topalia katyae Colloff, 2019 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Nosybeidae). Plonaphacarus sidorchukae Niedbała in Niedbała & Ermilov, 2011 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae). † Vietocycla katyae Fu & Huang, 2019 (INSECTA: Hemiptera: Hylicellidae). † Supraserphites sidorchukae Rasnitsyn & Öhm-Kühnle 2019 (INSECTA: Hymenoptera: Serphitidae). New taxa named by Ekaterina Alekseevna (Katya) Sidorchuk and co-authors Katya and co-authors established four family-group names (all fossil), eight genus-group names (all fossil) and 38 species-group names (12 fossil); all of these are for mites. A new genus († Palaeonothrus Krivolutski & Sidorchuk, 2003) was proposed for † Palaeonothrus polytrichus Krivolutski & Sidorchuk, 2003 and † Palaeonothrus rotundatus Krivolutski & Sidorchuk, 2003 (Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Ameronothridae), but these were later considered by Sidorchuk & Rasnytsyn (2009) to be mis-identified parts of Ichneumonoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). These are thus not included in the following lists. Family-group names † Carbolohmanniidae Sidorchuk & Robin in Robin et al., 2016 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Mix- onomata). † Nasutiacaridae Sidorchuk & Lindquist in Sidorchuk et al., 2015 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Heterostigmata). † Glaesacaridae Klimov & Sidorchuk in Sidorchuk & Klimov, 2011 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Astigmata). 8 · Zootaxa 4647 (1) © 2019 Magnolia Press ZHANG † Triasacaridae Lindquist & Sidorchuk in Sidorchuk et al. 2014 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Tetrapodili). Genus-group names † Alexebates Krivolutski & Sidorchuk, 2003 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Scheloribatidae). † Carbolohmannia Sidorchuk & Robin in Robin et al., 2016 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Mixono- mata). † Cheirolepidoptus Sidorchuk & Lindquist in Sidorchuk et al., 2014 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Tetrapodili). † Glaesacarus Klimov & Sidorchuk in Sidorchuk & Klimov, 2011 (ARACHNIDA: Sarcoptiformes: Oribatida: Astigmata: Glaesacaridae). † Labidostoma (Pseudocornutella) Sidorchuk & Bertrand, 2013 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Labidostomatidae). † Minyacarus Lindquist & Sidorchuk in Sidorchuk et al., 2014 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Tetrapodili). † Nasutiacarus Sidorchuk & Lindquist in Sidorchuk et al., 2015 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Heterostigmata). † Protohylomysobia Sidorchuk & Bochkov in Sidorchuk et al., 2018 (ARACHNIDA: Trombidiformes:
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    FRAGMENTA FAUNISTICA 52 (1): 21–23, 2009 PL ISSN 0015-9301 © MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY PAS Scheloribates distinctus Mihelčič, 1964 – a species of mite (Acari: Oribatida) new to fauna of Poland and new records of three rare species Grzegorz GRYZIAK Centre for Ecological Research PAS, Konopnickiej 1, 05-092 Łomianki, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: A new to fauna of Poland oribatid mite species (Scheloribates distinctus) and new localities of three rare species (Protoribates pannonicus, Punctoribates ghilarovi, Oppia nitens) are recorded from old compost heap in Łomianki near Warsaw, Mazovia Region, Poland. Key words: Scheloribates distinctus, Oppia nitens, Protoribates pannonicus, Punctoribates ghilarovi, new record, oribatid mites INTRODUCTION There is over 40 000 named species of mites (it is estimated that there is even 1 million unnamed species) and about 11 000 of described oribatid mites (Walter and Proctor 2004), with ca. 500 species occurring in Poland. It is almost half of European oribatid species (Olszanowski et al. 1996). Recognition of oribatid mites’ distribution is still unsatisfied as well (Niedbała 2004). Windrows of compost are hot-spots of soil biodiversity in local scale and can be very promising in faunistic research (Rozkošný 1982, Ødegaard and Tømmerås 2000). High richness of species and high abundance of individuals, are both much larger in compost heaps than in surrounding soil (Walter and Proctor 2004). Thereby probability of discovery of new or rare species is relatively high there. METHODS Mites were extracted from sample of over 20 years old garden compost, consisted of kitchen and garden vegetable litter, in January 2004, in Łomianki near Warsaw.
  • Out of Africa: the Mite Community (Arachnida: Acariformes) of The

    Out of Africa: the Mite Community (Arachnida: Acariformes) of The

    Hernandes and OConnor Parasites & Vectors (2017) 10:299 DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2230-5 RESEARCH Open Access Out of Africa: the mite community (Arachnida: Acariformes) of the common waxbill, Estrilda astrild (Linnaeus, 1758) (Passeriformes: Estrildidae) in Brazil Fabio Akashi Hernandes1* and Barry M. OConnor2 Abstract Background: The common waxbill, Estrilda astrild (L., 1758) (Passeriformes: Estrildidae) is a small passerine bird native to Sub-Saharan Africa that has been introduced into several regions of the world. Results: In the present paper, eight mite species (Acariformes) are reported from this host from Brazil, including three species new to science: Montesauria caravela n. sp., M. conquistador n. sp. (Proctophyllodidae), Trouessartia transatlantica n. sp., T. minuscula Gaud & Mouchet, 1958, T. estrildae Gaud & Mouchet, 1958 (Trouessartiidae), Onychalges pachyspathus Gaud, 1968 (Pyroglyphidae), Paddacoptes paddae (Fain, 1964) (Dermationidae) and Neocheyletiella megaphallos (Lawrence, 1959) (Cheyletidae). Comparative material from Africa was also studied. Conclusions: These mites represent at least three morpho-ecological groups regarding their microhabitats occupied on the bird: (i) vane mites (Montesauria and Trouessartia on the large wing and tail feathers); (ii) down mites (Onychalges); and (iii) skin mites (Paddacoptes and Neocheyletiella). On one bird individual we found representatives of all eight mite species. Although the common waxbill was introduced to the Neotropical region almost two centuries ago, we demonstrate that it still retains its Old World acarofauna and has not yet acquired any representatives of typical Neotropical mite taxa. Keywords: Acari, Feather mites, Systematics, Biogeography, Neotropics, Biodiversity Background recorded from this host [4]. In this paper, we report The common waxbill, Estrilda astrild (L., 1758) (Passeri- eight mite species (Acariformes) from E.
  • Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring Within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘I: Synthesis Report

    Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring Within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘I: Synthesis Report

    Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘i: Synthesis Report Prepared by Francis G. Howarth, David J. Preston, and Richard Pyle Honolulu, Hawaii January 2012 Surveying for Terrestrial Arthropods (Insects and Relatives) Occurring within the Kahului Airport Environs, Maui, Hawai‘i: Synthesis Report Francis G. Howarth, David J. Preston, and Richard Pyle Hawaii Biological Survey Bishop Museum Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817 USA Prepared for EKNA Services Inc. 615 Pi‘ikoi Street, Suite 300 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96814 and State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation, Airports Division Bishop Museum Technical Report 58 Honolulu, Hawaii January 2012 Bishop Museum Press 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i Copyright 2012 Bishop Museum All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America ISSN 1085-455X Contribution No. 2012 001 to the Hawaii Biological Survey COVER Adult male Hawaiian long-horned wood-borer, Plagithmysus kahului, on its host plant Chenopodium oahuense. This species is endemic to lowland Maui and was discovered during the arthropod surveys. Photograph by Forest and Kim Starr, Makawao, Maui. Used with permission. Hawaii Biological Report on Monitoring Arthropods within Kahului Airport Environs, Synthesis TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents …………….......................................................……………...........……………..…..….i. Executive Summary …….....................................................…………………...........……………..…..….1 Introduction ..................................................................………………………...........……………..…..….4